Maureen Owen at Ear Inn in 1978

Maureen Owen at the Ear Inn in 1978

Recently Anna Zalokostas listened to a recording of Maureen Owen’s Segue Series reading at the Ear Inn in New York, which took place on December 9, 1978, and then segmented the whole recording into the introductory comment and individual poems. We are delighted to find among these poems a wonderful address to Charles Reznikoff and the tiny, brilliant “The Origin of Haiku.” The complete recording can be heard here, and is of course linked, as are the segments, to PennSound's Maureen Owen author page. Her “Notes on Publishing” appeared in Jacket issue 10, in 2000.